blues wont give up assets to take Senko Philly would have to give two 3rds

I never really cared for JVR to Blues for Tarasenko (didn't hate it but didn't like it) but Allison makes this interesting. I don't think PHI is realistically even willing to give him up.

While I think you've been too generous for Arizona's retention (and that Arizona is likely be the wrong team to use in that role), you're right about the free agency factor and your offer is pretty good. Whether it gets beaten or not, I don't know. Right now it feels like Vova will stick around for at least a while, and if that happens I'm confident he can raise his value.

For me the offer ONLY makes sense if St. Louis strikes out. I think anyone thinking they'll get Beauvillier from NYI or any young assets of real value from NJD is being unrealistic at this point.

I think Philly would be willing to give Allison up to continue to make a change. They have a lot of young guys coming up in the pipeline. I liked Allison and still do a lot, but I think its the only way to make the deal attractive if St. Louis is going to take a pretty much equal contract in return.

Tarasenko for JVR is meh, but I'll take it if it comes to that. Allison for a 3rd is a big yes for me, though i don't think $1.5M in retention would cost two 3rds.

I was thinking about them taking some JVR retention as well so each team gets a little bit of a bail out in that area. You are probably right though! I paid too much for that retention, but thats minor changes. I think the fact that it is multiple seasons got in my head, but yea 2 3rds is too much.

If we're sending them a 3rd to also retain a little bit on JVR (hell even like $500k), I'm about that. I'm pretty sure there's limits on the amount of individual retentions a team can do though, and that would seem like a no go for ARI. Maybe ARI ups the retention on Tarasenko to $2M (for two 3rds) and you guys do the 500k retaining on JVR. You get Tarasenko at $5.5M, we get JVR at $6.5M. Would still cost the same against your cap.